The possibility of “all.”
Sunday, July 27, 2025. It's Sol's day … These days, it seems Sol is insistent that we recognize him. As if we needed help. What? Sol has no memory, he's too busy burning up.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Disappointment is a misunderstood mercy. – David Whyte, -from Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, Many Rivers Press, 2025.
The Buddhist vision of Indra's Net predates today's Cosmic Web by some 1400 years.
Taking pages from George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 (among yesterday’s blog topics), Trump is full-on attempting to re-write history for his legacy's name-sake. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, synchronistically yesterday.
The Temple of Your Life: Gifts from creatives in mediated forms. – Mirabai Starr. The first thought that came to me following Mirabai's video invite was “Babette's Feast,” a small, perfectly executed 1987 Danish film directed by Gabriel Axel with an international cast and crew. The screenplay, written by Axel, was based on the story by Isak Dinesen. It became the first Danish film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. If you've never seen it, find a way. If you remember it, seen it again for your tenth time. It's only been around for coming on 40 years.
The cold-hard-facts of the rabbit-hole . . .
Saturday, July 26, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . The heat-hammer continues to fall on TulseyTown. Forecasts include heat warnings with indices to 109º by mid afternoon. Walter, my go-to lawn tamer did his magic yesterday morning from 8 'til 10. He said he quits his gigs no later than noon these days. Wise man.
If a peregrin sees fifty times better than we, what do we look like to them?
– Jim Harrison, In Search of Small Gods, Copper Canyon Press. 2009
From the “cold, hard facts” file...
Gavin Newsom yesterday posted some stats Fox News would rather you not know:
52 million jobs have been created since the Cold War.
Democratic administrations created 50 million.
Republican administrations created 1.9 million.
Republican Presidents have one thing in common: recession.
In a stuffed maibox today...
The Nobel Prize laureate Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, was born today in 1856 Dublin,
The founder of analytic psychology Carl Jung, saw the light of day on this plane of existence in 1875 Kesswil, Switzerland.
It's the birthdate of Stanley Kubrick. The film director/producer/writer/cinematographer was born in 1928, Bronx, New York.
Helen Mirren celebrates her 90th birthday today. The Royal Shakespeare Company and multi-award laureat actress was born today in 1945, London, England.
Humorist Jean Shepherd was born in 1921 Chicago, Illinois.
And, the English author, Aldous Huxley, who gave us Brave New World, was born on this day in 1894 Godalming, Surrey, England.
Down a rabbit-hole:
Brave New World is often compared with George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, since they each offer a view of a dystopian future. "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. – Cultural critic Neil Postman, author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, Penguin, 2005.
Maggie's farm is having a hard time finding workers.
Friday, July 25, 2025.
It's Freya's (Frigg's) day . . . TulseyTown's weatherfeather indicates a cooler 102º index today. As if we'd notice.
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. – Rumi
L’Affaire Epstein? Follow the money. Joyce Vance is. See Civil Discourse.
While Trump tries to silence everyone who speaks out against him, South Park burned Trump on Wednesday's premiere of the twenty-seventh season of the television series. In it Satan, potrayed in bed with Trump was the gentlest image. Heather Cox Richardson took note on Letters From An American. South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker promise the gloves are off and they're just getting started.
Today in 1965 At the Newport (Rhode Island) Folk Festival, American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan initially eschewed his acoustic guitar to go electric; the controversial performance is considered one of the most pivotal moments in the history of rock and roll.